The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-05-14

lanOl OTQlSm IOICeQ us, 10 OllI SNnlut, "
seek. But our great leader, Mr.. Par
nell, has said he will never again beg
the world for aims for Irish landlord.
ism. We are now begging, not fol
aims, but to enable us to uproot the
whole system Of Irish landlordism. we
do not come TO ask YOU for 100000 for
charity any more, but to ask you to
consider what use Lord LansdoWne is
making Of the 10000 year which you
enable him to get, and if that be rnt to
bad and inhuman use We.ask you tC
convey your censure OF Lord Lans-
downe, as you have perfect right to
Go, as the free citizens CT a self-gOvern-
ing nation. Your parliament passed
resolutions in favor OF Home Rule and
strengthened the hands Of Mr.. Glad
stone in his blessed work OF conciliatlon
and Of peace and g thrill Of gratitude
went through ireland the other day
when the same body passed resolutions
condemning the abomblnable coer-
cion hill, which proposes to reduce our
people to The condition of negro slaves,
The object Of the coercion bill is to en-
able men like Lord Lansdowne to
wiring intolerable rack-rent out Of Irish
tenants. Its object is to render it safe
for every rack-renter to desolate the
homes of Ireland as Lord LansdoWne
has desolated the honaes Of Luggacur-
ran. Its object is to gar us if we
won't lie down and submis to it like
whipped hounds. If you don't want
us to go down in the fight against pow
ertul and cruel foes, if you want us TO
conquer. now is the day and now is the
hour. The day you send Lord Lans~
downe home with the stamp of Cana
dian disaNection on his brow, you will
enable us to laugh at coercion and
strengthen the arms of Gladstone to put
an end to evictiO1s for all time. will
not call up the ghostly memories that
haunt the LansdoWne estate from other
days, but just look at what is passing
at this moment. Lord Lansdowne is
laying waste an entire stretch OF coun-
Try miles long as completely as il the
ange! Of death knocked st every cabin
door il. these valleys and devoted every
man, woman and child to destruction.
AS soon as he viii! have obtained his
next batch of ejectment DEGREES he will
have made clean sweep OF the proper
ty, and, except Lord Lansdowne's own
bailiffs and creatures, the whole pop Ia
tion will have been banished and their
homes will know them no more Mr..
O'Brien quoted lengthy reports from the
Dublin Freeman Oh the ejectmellts
from Lord Lansoowne's estates with
headings such rs Gone Hundred and
Twenty People Evicted,' - "Sixty People
Made Homeless, - Zone Hundred and
Seventy Human Beings Evicted," and
so on. Then he described incidents at
tending some of the evictions, in which
the aged, infirm and sick were thrown
out of their cabins. helpless. in some
cases. He proceeded "When the dis
pute arose the tenants owed only half a
years rent, after all the f1ightful losses
of the past seven years. One years
rent should be due before eviction can
take place. and unworthy attempts have
been made to make the Canadian people
understand that one months rent was
due. The second half years rent, said
to be due, but which was not. was
mere lawyers myth, legal fiction
known as the hanging gate. The Lug
gacurran tenants were honest, peace
ful and inoffensive. So far as crime is
concerned, the locality is simply stain
less. During these batt'arons evictions
not blow was struck OF q stone flung,
and what have these people ever done
that they should deserve to be robbed
of home and land :? Simply sought
abatements on their rents. attachments
less than Earl Cowper's royal com mis-
sion-a landlord commission appointed
by Tory Observation-Disclosures to be
less even than the land COM
courts are granting on neigh
boring estates, and, finally, renuctions
to which Lord LansdoWne's own arbi-
TRAITOR, Mr.. Denning gave his assent and
approval in black and white. In proof
of this Mr.. O'Brien quoted DEGREES in
abatement of 10 to 40 per cent. on the
estates of Lord Castledowne, McMur
raugh and Cavanaugh, whereas Lord
Lansdowne's tenants only asked an
abatement of 30 per cent, and would
have accepted 20, or even the Is per
cent, which the Lansdowne agent
himself suggested. Mr.. Trench's own
agent gave precisely that reduction on
a neighborjng estate at the time Lord
was proclaiming 'tNo quar-
ter'' to the Luggacurran tenants. 81
claim, therefore, . he said i'll conclusion,
ssthat Lord Lansdowne stands con-
demned and tnat the Justice and mod
GRAFTON of the. tenants claim are as
clear and convincing as ever Gods
blessing shed upon ri ghteous cause" "
Mr. O'Brien spoke at Quebec Thurs
day night and was received enthusias-